Do NOT sell virtual goods on Paypal – a Paypal chargeback that is 1.5 years old!!!!

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A looong time ago, I used to play this addictive card game on my phone.  The game is basically a Pokemon type game where you hunt and collect cards and battle other players with the cards.  Eventually, I stopped playing the game and decided to sell the cards on Neoseeker.  Since everyone else was doing it, I thought it’d be safe.  I noticed every seller stated to send money as gift via Paypal and write in the notes: “Payment for virtual goods.  I do understand that once I get the item, no refunds can be made.”  That statement clearly is as bulletproof as Saran Wrap.  I was able to sell off all my cards for about ~$1,000.  Don’t think that’s good because the time I spent playing and collecting was grossly under slave labor wages.

Fast forward to this morning when I got this doozy in my inbox.  I kept wondering what the hell this was since I hadn’t sold anything on Paypal for exactly $50 this year.  Sure enough, I open it up and my jaw dropped.  My first reaction was, “HOLY SHIT PAYPAL!  C’MON! THIS WAS FROM MARCH 2014, NEARLY 1.5 YEARS AGO.”  And that’s what I wrote in the chargeback dispute claim.  Most likely, I will lose this chargeback since you can’t sell virtual goods on Paypal but yet, Paypal Digital Gifts can sell electronic gift cards just fine.  But I honestly don’t know if I’m more mad at Paypal or the freaking credit card that let him do a chargeback that is 1.5 years old!?!  There’s gotta be some kind of statue of limitations to this!  Who honestly goes back 1.5 years of credit card statements and goes, “Hmmm, I don’t think I authorized that charge.  Let me go dispute it.”   C’mon Paypal, can’t you smell a freaking scammer when you see one?  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Moral of story – NEVER sell virtual goods on Paypal because you will lose all chargebacks.

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